Twitter Reacts as Sol Campbell Continues His Campaign to Become London Mayor

Football history is littered with international superstars who went on to become politicians. Romario stood in Brazilian federal parliament after hanging up his boots, George Weah aimed to become president of Liberia and Roman Pavlyuchenko stood for Vladimir Putin's United Russia party at a local level even while playing at Tottenham. 

The latest former pro to attempt to gain power through democratic means is Sol Campbell, who feels he is the right man to become the next mayor of London. The former Tottenham and Arsenal centre-back was interviewed on London's LBC radio station Tuesday, where he scored what has been described as an "own goal" by admitting he did not own an Oyster card...

Campbell spoke about the need to invest in the Underground but also struggled to figure out a simple route on the network when prompted. It didn't take long for him to trend in the UK... 

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Sol Campbell sliding into UK Twitter Top Trends like... pic.twitter.com/NfxtrRJLSq

— Jammy Dodger (@mrjammyjamjar1) June 23, 2015"

Big Sol's unfamiliarity with public transport seemed to be a big talking point among the Twitter proletariat...

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Sol Campbell wants to be London mayor despite being unable to work his way through a London tube map, or have an oyster? Dream on

— Harris (@craven43h) June 23, 2015"

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Sol Campbell suggests we lengthen 'some' of the tube platforms to get more people on. Ok mate.

— Iain Lee (@iainlee) June 23, 2015"

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Sol Campbell has used the tube everyone. Once. "Mind the crap. This is a deluded line service to...Notachance Road. Doors closing.

— James Wren (@PeoplePensPaper) June 23, 2015"

Many were also keen to retweet some key quotes from the LBC interview...

Campbell's struggles with the English language gave his Twitter foes plenty of ammunition...

Inevitably, many football fans were keen to revisit Campbell's highly controversial 2001 transfer across London...

One user also joked about Arsenal fans' famous tendency to "ruin" Internet polls...

In the interest of fairness, it is worth noting that Campbell did receive a few tweets of support, including one from former Tory MP Edwina Currie...

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I like the sound of Sol Campbell's interventionist housing policies #VoteSol

— Joe (@joeshawty) June 23, 2015"

It seems that Mr. Campbell will struggle to win the mayoral elections in London, but he is clearly doing everything he can on the campaign trail... 

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#VoteSol pic.twitter.com/zJOwY7WoB1

— Alex Jarvis (@alexjarvis24) June 10, 2015"

You're welcome. Here's the full LBC interview...